These Celebrities Live In A Constant State Of Bliss Thanks To Meditation

Life's inevitable challenges come at us when we least expect them, causing stress and anxiety that really doesn't need to be there. Many people let these negative vibes get to them because they've yet to be enlightened by the power of meditation. Practicing meditation regularly can help you live a happier, more fulfilling life. But don't let us be the ones to convince you. Even the calmest and most collected celebrities admit that they can't get through their days without transcendental meditation (TM). Keep reading to see if your favorite celeb is one of them!

Meditation Helped Paul McCartney Get Through The "Crazy Sixties"

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Sir Paul McCartney and the rest of the Beatles famously traveled to India to learn meditation under world-renowned sage Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the late '60s. The result of that trip was 1968's White Album.

"In moments of madness, meditation has helped me find moments of serenity – and I would like to think that it would help provide young people a quiet haven in a not-so-quiet world... It was a great gift that Maharishi gave us. For me it came at a time when we were looking for something to stabilize us toward the end of the crazy sixties," McCartney told Transcendental Meditation.

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Katy Perry Practices Meditation To Clear Her Creative Mind

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The life of an international pop star can get pretty hectic, which is why Katy Perry turns to meditation to center herself. Perry started transcendental meditation in 2011 and has said that the practice has changed her life.

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"It's something that's with you for your whole life. You learn your mantra, it never leaves you, and it's the deepest rest your brain gets. For people that are so creative and have this kind of creative faucet that never turns off... it can be a little exhausting... And meditation is actually the one time I get to really reset," Perry told Rolling Stone in 2014.

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Jerry Seinfeld Used Meditation To Get Through Nine Years Of Seinfeld

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By the time Seinfeld took off in the early '90s, Jerry Seinfeld was filming at least 20 episodes per season and this went on for nine years. With such a busy filming schedule, Seinfeld took time to center himself with transcendental meditation.

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"When I was doing the series for 22 to 24 episodes a year on network television...for nine years, that's a lot of work, every day. And while everybody was having lunch I would do [transcendental meditation]. That was how I survived the nine years. Those 20 minutes in the middle of the day saved me," he said at a gala for the David Lynch Foundation.

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Cameron Diaz Thought That She Was Incapable Of Meditating

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Cameron Diaz believed that she was completely incapable of meditating. But once the actress was shown the right tools for meditation, it has been her saving grace during hectic filming schedules and trying to remember lines.

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"I knew there was something there for me, in meditation, but every time I would try to do it, I was like, 'I just cannot meditate!' I learned TM... And it was exactly what I needed! The thing that blew me away the most about it was that it was the easiest thing I've ever done," she said in an interview with the David Lynch Foundation.

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Jennifer Lopez Meditates When She Feels Overwhelmed

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It seems like there's nothing that Jennifer Lopez can't do. She's a singer, actress, dancer, and all-around entertainer who usually has multiple projects going on at once. But how does Jenny from the Block stay sane through all of it? Mediation.

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"I took on mediation... 20 minutes a day in the morning and at night... it was necessary. It was almost like my brain, for the first time in my life, felt like 'Okay, you bit off more than you can chew," Lopez told People editorial director Jess Cagle in 2016.

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Tom Hanks Says Transcendental Meditation Has Helped Him With Small Talk

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Tom Hanks credits Jerry Seinfeld for turning him onto meditation. "I meet Jerry Seinfeld and he says to me, 'So what are you up to now?' I said, 'Actually, I've just finished a job and I'm going to take a year off... I have to tell you I'm fatigued.' [Seinfeld responded,] 'So you're tired? Well why don't you do TM?'"

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Since then, TM has helped Tom Hanks get through times when work gets the best of him. It has also helped him with small talk. "Now I have answers to that question: 'What else do you do in your spare time?'" Hanks said in an interview with Phoebe Robinson.

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Amy Schumer Stays Sharp With Transcendental Meditation

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No-holds-barred Amy Schumer might not seem like the type of person to practice something as focused and quiet as transcendental meditation. On the contrary, TM is exactly what helps Schumer maintain her sharp wit.

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On How To Be Amazing with fellow comedian Michael Ian Black, Schumer recommended that listeners try TM. "I had been so busy and every moment there were all these increments of things I had to do, and I had no energy. This just totally changed the game for me. Energy, focus, general bettering of life and feeling just physically and mentally better," Schumer said.

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Non-Religious Clint Eastwood Practices Meditation Religiously

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At almost 90 years old, Clint Eastwood is amazingly all there and doesn't seem to be retiring anytime soon. In the 1970s, Eastwood went public with his meditation practice, which he has continued to the present day.

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"[Meditation] just gives you a chance to gather your thoughts. I'm religious about it when I'm working... I believe in whatever self-help you can give yourself, whether you believe in Buddha or whatever... So meditation for me was just a self-reliant thing. I've been doing it almost forty years," Eastwood told GQ magazine in 2009.

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Oprah Winfrey Swears That Meditation Improves Lives

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Who knows about living your best life better than Oprah Winfrey? The most influential woman in the world knows that the key to a balanced life is to take a few minutes to yourself every day.

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The talk-show-host-turned-philanthropist wrote on her site, "I give myself a healthy dose of quiet time at least once (and when I'm on point, twice) a day. 20 minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening... The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, co-workers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around."

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Howard Stern's Mom Inspired Him To Meditate

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The "King of All Media," Howard Stern is known for his revelatory interviews and indecent content, yet the radio host stays grounded through it all with transcendental meditation. On Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Stern told host Jerry Seinfeld that his own mother turned him to the practice when he was 18.

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"She was very depressed, because her sister had died... Then I go off to college and I get a call in my freshman year from a woman who sounded completely different! ...I could sense that my Mum was profoundly different! Organically happy, not a contrived happiness, so I started meditating," Stern said.

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Goldie Hawn Uses Meditation To Ease Anxiety

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When Goldie Hawn came to California in the '60s, she originally set out to be a dancer. Then she got cast on the hit sketch comedy show, Laugh-In, and the rest – as they say – is history. She was barely 22 by then and thought she was living the dream, but something wasn't right.

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"I started looking into myself to understand why I was feeling this anxiety and why I wasn't feeling this unbridled joy... From that point on in 1972, I started meditating. And that brought me a tremendous joy and connectivity inside of me," she told Elle in 2015.

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Tom Bergeron Says Meditation Helps Him Go With The Flow

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Beloved television host Tom Bergeron never seems to miss a beat, especially when it comes to live tapings of his current gig, Dancing with the Stars. But Bergeron hasn't always been able to keep his cool, struggling with anger management in the past. He's learned to cope by using mediation.

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"I trust that because of the practice, because of the investment of time and mental energy into being present, that I'm going... to somehow know how to roll with whatever happens... It does make you better able to assess things as they're happening so as to not fly off the handle," Bergeron told ABC's Dan Harris in 2017.

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Jennifer Aniston's Meditation Practice Keeps Her Looking Radiant

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Jennifer Aniston certainly has the last laugh when it comes to all the tabloid drama she has suffered through the years. The actress still looks just as amazing as she did when she starred on Friends and part of her secret is meditation.

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"I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM and that's really changed everything. Starting your day off with that and ending with that is pretty powerful. Twenty minutes, you just notice the difference! When I get lazy and don't get it in, I can feel a difference in the day," Aniston once said in 2014.

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Hugh Jackman Took Up Meditation To Become A Better Actor

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For someone who plays a character as angry as Wolverine, you'd think that Hugh Jackman has to maintain a certain level of stress to stay in character. In fact, Jackman has turned to mediation to help him become a better actor, which in turn helped him eliminate stress caused by fear in his life.

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Jackman has said in 2017, "With meditation, my anxiety levels dropped considerably. It seems to me that the mind is fuel to the fire of fear... Meditation makes you see very clearly what goes on in your mind, its machinations."

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Kristen Bell Eases Her Silent Struggles With Meditation

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With her loving husband, two daughters, and a thriving Hollywood career, Kristen Bell seems to have it all. But 15 years into her career, the cheery actress has opened up about her struggles with depression and anxiety. One of the things that helps her through it is meditation.

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"It's a little brain massage... I think we underestimate how often we need to slow down and get a brain massage. Meditation makes me feel more rested than a full night's sleep. I really enjoy powering down for 20 minutes because it's like shutting off light switches in my brain," she said in 2017.

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Lindsay Lohan Has Found Salvation In Meditation

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Lindsay Lohan went from a child star to a teen idol, who unfortunately found herself in a downward spiral in the more recent years of her career. In 2007, after a string of arrests, Lohan released the statement: "It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs."

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But since 2014, Lohan has been working hard to change. "I love spirituality and that really drives me. Meditation, transcendental meditation, that really clears my mind, just being able to switch off," Lohan said on The View in 2017.

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Kobe Bryant Anchors Himself With Daily Meditation

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Kobe Bryant began meditating in 2000 when he was still playing basketball with the LA Lakers and new coach Phil Jackson forced the team to learn it. "It wasn't an option for us. We'd sit in our film room and [he'd] turn the lights out and we would meditate as a group," Bryant told a LinkedIn Learning class in 2017.

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The Lakers went on to win three consecutive NBA titles and Bryant hasn't stopped meditating since. He continued, "It's like having an anchor. If I don't do it, it feels like I'm constantly chasing the day, as opposed to being controlled and dictate the day."

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John Stamos Finds Meditation Empowering

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Full House actor John Stamos was arrested for a DUI in 2015, after which he entered a month-long stint in rehab. Our favorite TV uncle took the bad publicity as a wake up call and subsequently worked to get his life back together.

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"Last year I got back into daily meditation. It has helped me a lot – centering me and giving me a certain clarity. There's something spiritual about it. To sit for 20 minutes a day and not be on my computer, phone or texting is empowering... It clears my mind to let good things in," Stamos told the Los Angeles Times in 2016.

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Meditation Keeps Matt Bomer Sane

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Matt Bomer seems to possess a certain effortless finesse. But he probably wouldn't be able to seem so collected without the help of meditation, which he turned to in 2014 when filming The Normal Heart. Bomer had to lose 35 pounds for the role and got through the intense starvation with meditation. Since then, he's continued to practice it.

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"It's what I do to keep myself sane. Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people it's running, for some it's going to the gym. For me it's meditation," Bomer told Men's Journal in 2015.

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David Lynch Believes Meditation Is The Way In

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Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive director David Lynch started the David Lynch Foundation to finance scholarships for schools interested in learning transcendental meditation and to fund research on the technique. As a result, Lynch has become one of the most prominent TM advocates in the celebrity sphere.

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"I guess people start meditation for many different reasons, but each person who starts will get the benefit they are looking for, and many other benefits as well... I heard a phrase, 'True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.' ...One day it hit me that meditation would be the way to go within," he said in 2017.